![]() ![]() ![]() I’m kind of into it, actually - sexting is fun, and I’m intrigued by the creative possibilities of getting saucy with a robot. Prove me wrong, Itoka, prove me wrong.Īpropos potent - Morgan argues that Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot. I have made little secret of my disdain for blockchain tech in general (and the painful irony of blockchain for climate in particular), but that one seems like a particularly potent nonstarter. There was a whole bunch of corporate AI news, not all of which is relevant to startups, but the recap is that Meta open sources an AI-powered music generator, while Itoka wants to license AI-generated music via the blockchain. It may prove to have an advantage in the notoriously privacy-focused EU - but, not gonna lie, I also raised an eyebrow at the company’s $260 million valuation - that’s a lot of equity to give up in a seed round. TL DR: It ain’t pretty.įrance’s Mistral AI blows raised a $113 million seed round to take on OpenAI. Alex broke down how far Twitter’s advertising revenues have fallen. The very next news story was Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent. On the bright side, Elon didn’t have to CEO anymore, as Linda Yaccarino officially took the big chair as Twitter CEO. Good heavens, that’s a one-way ticket to Yikes City all around.Įlon shouldn’t be too relieved, though the bird sanctuary got its own headlines, and most of them were … not super encouraging. Reddit goes down briefly, subreddits and moderators were protesting - thousands of them, in fact - and it seems like a lot of them are planning to stay shut down indefinitely. Popular third-party Reddit app Apollo announced it was shutting down, and Reddit’s CEO wasn’t a big fan of how that went down, giving the Apollo developer both barrels in a drama-filled AMA. This slow-motion train crash is quite a thing, and it’s all related to Reddit’s new API pricing. The Reddit leadership team seems to have hit the slow-mo button and taken control of a couple of trains before hitting the “full steam ahead” button and pointing the trains at each other. I’m sure Twitter is relieved to see that Reddit is taking many of the headlines this week. In a nutshell, as I wrote in my TC+ column this week, that scares the crap out of me. In other words: Some of the most powerful money people believe they will see a return on their investments in the next 10 years. VC is an asset class with a 10-year cycle. You wanna know how close? The climate deadline is close enough that it is interesting to VCs again. The event horizon for when we can expect to end up in (literal) hot water when it comes to climate has come a lot closer. ![]() Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday afternoon. ![]()
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